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	Sunday, July 03, 2005

It Matters Less Now Where you were Born or Live.   (on business)  When I look at now the list the successful people, you start to get a glimpse that people are succeeding all over the world.  While we use to lament that we were not born or in the right place at the right time, as technology races to connect all of us, and make information available to all with internet, it is starting to look like circumstance or geography is becoming less of an issue in our ability to achieve our potential. Carlos Ghosn, a Lebanese, became a CEO in Renault, French company, but before that, made his mark in South America, and became a hero for saving Nissan, a Japanese company. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates was said to have argued that the whole relationship between geography and talent has changed.  Thirty years ago, if you had a choice between being born a genius on the outskirts of Bombay or Shanghai or being born an average person in Poughkeepsie, you would take Poughkeepsie, because your chances of thriving and living a decent life there, even with average talent, were much greater.  But as the world has gone flat, Gates said, and so man people can now plug and play from anywhere, natural talent has started to trump geography. Now, it seems that it is better to be a genius born in China than an average guy born in Poughkeepsie.   It is harder than ever to hide talents, and increasingly, your success would be determined by what you can do , rather than to whom or where you were born.   Are we still blaming the our fate or circumstance, or should we start to think that technology has freed us from these restraint.  Isn't that something to think about?       6:26:17 PM     comment []   trackback []